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Dear OG, I thank you for your opinion. It is nice to see how someone views my thoughts. I don't claim that they are well thought out or even correct. I did not expect for some of the harsh comments you made towards me.
I would like to say that I agree that especially in America we as citizens have a right to protest war or whatever the heck we want. I just think it ought to be done correctly. By this lady verbally attacking the First Lady which in the end landed her in jail, what was she expecting? The right to protest is to be done in a safe and peaceful mode. Obviously by being disruptive her protest did not qualify. I understand the need for drastic measure but I think she could come up with a better way to show her disgust for the war.
Your right maybe I was being disingenuous but do you get my point? I would like to think our lawmakers and congressmen are humans just like you and I, so that would mean they have feelings. The same feelings that say too many people are dying. To be in a position of authority you have to remove your personal feelings to some extent and look for the good of the whole. If we went to Iraq and wiped out the Al queda or terrorists forever and the cost was 500,000 Americans would it be worth it? That is a question that our leaders are forced to make. What number of dead soldiers is too much? I don't think the average person sees the real need for foreign policy. I think that is part of the problem. I am not sure of the number of total deaths the US has suffered but I am sure that the number of Iraqis massacred under the regime over there is 50 times higher. All we see is the bad news. What about the good news over there?
I must agree with you if we are going to not allow women to have kids while in the service then sterilize the men as well. Makes sense to me. I do not mean to be fascist as you call it but what is the point in training someone for war and then they are physically unable to perform? I am not talking about typing on a computer. I mean being in physical shape to march 3 miles a day, to be at your best when your life and the life of your platoon is on the line. I think this is part of the problem. We have activated National Guard and reserve units that aren't prepared. I work daily with people in the reserves and I think I am better prepared then they are to go into war. We are sending weekend commandos to war and they are getting killed. That should not come as a surprise to anyone.
What do you mean take a stand? I am. I am supporting the government and officials I have voted for. I have no problem in pointing out to my local representatives any injustice I feel is being done. I doubt the lady protesting the war even votes. All I am saying by "trusting my chosen officials" is they have more extensive knowledge of world history and policy.
Thanks again for your point of view.
Reality04
Dear Reality04, if you want my opinion...
Thank you also for your opinion. I suppose I was harsh and insulting too. I apologize for the insults, but I think my harshness was warranted. I would also like to point out that I do not support violent protest either, but your email to me mentioned nothing about a physical attack. You were criticizing their (the lady and Michael Moore) protesting in general. One last thing...no one believes the U.S. is in Iraaq to defeat Al Queda terrorists anymore.
I think I spoke my opinion as much as I intend to in response to this email, but I will add one more thing. You are naive in your trust of government. If democracy is to work as it is meant to government must be accountable and responsible to the people. If the people sit back and "trust" them without question, they are not being held accountable or responsible. Even the watchmen need to be watched.
Opinion Guy
I just wanted to voice my opinion on the war in Iraq. I know what it is like to have a family member serving in the army and also being the low man on the totem pole. My brother served in Operation Desert Storm and was Infantry. Yes, people are dying over there and yes it is sad but MY BIG PROBLEM is the whining alot of people are doing and protesting. Scenario: You join the reserves to pay for college. DON'T be surprised if there is a war and you HAVE to go!!! You are in the Armed Forces and that is what the armed forces do!! My feeling is that alot of people that are in the reserves/national guard understand this but there is a group that doesn't. What did you think you were signing up for?? From my understanding the armed forces is about rank and order. So if your commanding chief sends you into combat then you do it. You do not question his orders which is the basis of military training.
Everyone cries about the welfare program, people are having kids and can't afford them and then the govt subsidizes them. I liken that to getting your schooling paid for by the govt since you are in the reserves or whatever and then not wanting to go to war. I think this is actually worse. They need to take out student loans like the rest of us. It really pisses me off when I hear about these conscientious objectors, which means they don't agree with war but they will take the governments money and waste our money training them for something which they will never do.
I was reading in CNN that some lady was blasting the first lady because of the war and that here son died serving in Iraq. First, if her son was in the army she must have known there is some inherent risk. If you didn't want your son to join then don't let him. Ultimately it would have been his decision and if so honor it. If I chose to enter the service and serve my country and died defending it that to me is honorable. For my mother to protest the war after I died would be and insult to me. I made the decision and it was what I wanted to do. If she is so passionate against war where was she at when her son was thinking about enlisting?? I am truly sorry that her son died but by protesting the war she is dishonoring him in my opinion.
Also, this lady like infamous Michael Moore, asks the question where is the children of the senators and congressman?? A fair question. Although if there kids chose not to serve in the armed forces then in my opinion why ask it. If I were a senator or congressman, I think I would be well off, financially speaking and my kids would be in college. I am not saying that rich families children do not join the service but I think a majority of people join the service to better themselves and their families which means they are not well off. And lastly would the death of a congressman's son or daughter help you deal with the loss of your son?? I think not.
While I am on my soap box, I also believe that females should not be allowed to become pregnant while in the service. They should be given the birth control shot that way they will be able to do their duty. If males could have children half the army would be pregnant. Also, think of the hardship these kids go through when there parents have to serve. Is it morally correct to have children while you are in the service? If you are in combat status I say no.
Lastly my opinion of the war is similar to anyone else with a heart, too many of our soldiers are getting killed. I do not claim to have the foresight that I hope our commanding officers have so I will trust in their judgement.
Reality04
Dear Reality04, if you want my opinion...
Let me begin by saying how excited I am to have received a submission expressing opinions that aren't about dating or marriage. Now to respond...
I am not an American, nor have I ever served in the military. I do have great respect for the men and women of any country who chose to serve in defense of their countries. For this reason I do not think as you seem to, that anyone (soldier or civilian) should be stripped of their right to protest a war they do not feel is just. I would hope that in any free democratic country, no man would ever be expected to have to mindlessly act against his good conscience, to follow orders which may cause the needless death of himself or others for no good reason. And I would hope no civilian would ever be expected to have to keep his protestations of an unjust war to himself. Unfortunately my hopes set me up for disappointment. There are those like yourself who would take away their basic rights and unfairly accuse them of base motives. If all wars were fair, just, necessary, and in defense of one's country, then the right to conscientious objection would be harder to defend.
As for your criticism of the woman protesting the war in which her son died...how callous and unfair of you. She did nothing to dishonor her son and through her protesting she may help save other mother's from the pain of having their sons or daughters die senselessly. I am sure both she and her son did not ever consider that their country might send her son to die in a war they could not agree with or support.
Of course the death of a congressman's son would not help matters. I am convinced you are being disingenuous by even suggesting that was Moore's point. Clearly he was Trying to show the lack of empathy shown by law makers towards the common american soldier. I agree Moore can be heavy handed in his methods of expressing a point, but much less so than you are in your ridiculously disingenuous criticism of him.
If female soldiers should have mandatory birth control shots while in service, then perhaps men should be given medication to prevent erections. Better yet...have all soldiers sterilized. Because I am in doubt of your reason and intelligence, I am going to point out that I was being sarcastic. You do have an interesting argument, and there are points to consider, but the bottom line is that as long as women are in the military (as they have every right to be) they should be allowed to have responsibility over their own bodies. I cannot conceive of anything more fascist then mandatory control over anyone's ability to conceive children. But this is a subject we could go on and on about. I will end it here for now.
If you can see and admit that too many are being killed in Iraq, why can you not have the courage to take a stand. By "trusting in the judgement" of those in command you are merely shirking responsibility. It is your right as an American citizen to expect your government to be responsible to you. If they need reminding, remind them.
Opinion Guy
i just have this urge to show people how i feel and i'm doing my best to ease this urge. first this will have barely any format, i just need to write. the opinion i'm writing about is our lives, our life styles, current events,religion everything on my mind. i'll start with...i don't know i'll just write. right now we all know that there's a war going on, but i want to know why? there was never any evidence of the chemical weapons that bush talked about. i agree that there were horrible things happening in iraq, but were they our business? oh, and that reminds me, what's up with jews killing people in mass murders, i would think that they would learn after the holocaust. whatever. but look, then we have bush, who got into office by CHEATING!!! then he goes around being stupid, help me here people, why did anyone vote for bush?!!! im sorry if im offending anyone, i'm sorry, but oh well. on to religion. i am in school at this time in my life, i won't say when! re. but my problem with my school is everyone there (even teachers) are such god lovers, and they let the world know it. its fine if you're a christian, i have no problem, even though i'm not one myself. but my problem with these people are they have no respect for other people. even the teachers make comments about how its bad if you don't believe in god. really, these people need help. i mean they're the ones who say atheists should respect them. by them making us say the pledge of alliegance they are undermining us. if you recall the pledge says..."one nation under god." what about me, the person not under god? please someone answer me why the minority is normally underminded, discriminated against and a whole bunch of other stuff. if you have other opinions and want me to know them then just post them here and start with "payton" and i'll know its to me. i'll check here everyday. thanks.-payton
Dear Payton,
Tanks for expressing your opinions. Being an atheist and anti war myself I find them most interesting and look forward to more, and to other viewers reactions. On the whole I'm in agreement with you on much of your concerns. Please forgive the time it took to post your submission on the site. As you probably read above the submission form where you wrote your opinion, I have been on holidays.
If I could impose on you a little... in future submissions could you take the time to capitalize where appropriate? I'd really appreciate it. I realize you were in rant mode. I appreciate a good rant (*grins*), and if you don't mind that your submission is posted as is don't bother capitalizing. However, if you do care, please take time to capitalize. I run a spell check on submissions and lightly proof read, trying to catch the most glaring errors but it would make my life so much easier if submissions were sent as people wanted them read. Thank you.
Opinion Guy
Opinion Guy, I'm sure that you mean well, but I don't think that you should be giving advice about anything spiritual. Being that you don't believe in God at all (I hope someday you see the truth). If you could, please pass this along to TESTED IN FAITH: My husband and I had almost the same problem. Only my husband and I were physically attacked at night in our sleep. I spent many nights begging God to help, the problem was I was not asking the right questions in my prayers. It wasn't that my faith was weak that this happened, it was because I opened the door for the demons to enter. Anything nowadays can open it. I had books of an evil nature in my house from my days as a teenager, and that allowed them to enter. I didn't even remember that I had them, but one night I was in bed, not sleeping from fear, listening to a preacher on the radio and he told the story of the door being opened and why. I had never heard this guy before, I just flipped right to the station. God told me it was the books and I got up and threw them all away, anything questionable went in the trash. I asked God to clean out my house of all evil things and from that moment I have not had one problem.
Now, remember God also says not to become a fanatic and don't invent things that aren't there, that can also open the door. After such an occurences one can become paranoid. Just be sensible. If you run into trouble ask God for wisdom on the subject. Remember, if he doesn't answer your prayer it may be because you aren't asking the right question. It's like; if you don't want it to rain for some reason and you pray about it, some farmer might be praying FOR rain, just ask for it not to rain where you are ie.; if you are driving ask him to keep the rain off the road, or stop it until you get where you want to go. God be with you.
Thank you Opinion Guy
Dear Me, if you want my opinion...
Your complete faith in a world of fantasy where demons can enter your house and attack you if you have "...almost anything.." in your possession to allow them, and the elements bow to your every whim if you only pray to god (being very specific of course), scares the hell out of me. No pun intended. The only thing I find scarier is that your baseless faith seems to be coupled with a complete denial of reality, and I know there are more out there like yourself who are living in a world of delusion. If you really believe that there are demons lying in wait for you in every dark corner, or that you can and do have minute control over the elements there may be a place for you in a psychiatric hospital.
As far as my qualifications to render advise on these matters...it's true they are arguable. But not because they are spiritual in nature and I happen to not believe a god exists. If my qualifications are in question it is because sleep paralysis is a medical condition(a well documented one at that) and I am by my own admission not a medical doctor, psychologist, or psychotherapist. I do however suffer on occasion from sleep paralysis and have read enough on the subject to recognize classic symptoms. And having once been a christian believing in a creator as you do I have knowledge of the Spiritual side of things you seem so obsessed with. By the way I would like to make clear that only the most extreme fundamentalist believers would agree with your beliefs. I'm thankful that most christians would also find your viewpoint to be delusional, extreme and obsessive to the point of being scary and an embarrassment to other believers. It blows my mind that in this enlightened day and age, an educated adult would choose baseless fantasy to explain an occurrence that is perfectly well explained by medical science.As for your own experience being attacked I wouldn't attempt to explain it. But the words "lies" and "exaggeration" run through my list of possible answers. No point in assuming though. Not without more information.
I sincerely hope that you find the truth and learn to make informed opinions instead of forming them based on faith without ever investigating other alternatives. Unfortunately it has been my experience that gullible people like yourself continue to believe as they do even when confronted with logic, having a seemingly endless capacity for denial. I am therefore fully expecting you to label me a "satanist" or some such nonsense, and dismiss everything I have said offhand. You may even start a campaign of prayer and letter writing in an attempt to have me removed from the web before I can give my godless and blasphemous advice to anyone else like poor TESTED IN FAITH. Perhaps I am being vain thinking you would give me so much regard, but I've witnessed similar over matters just as trivial. The fact is I would welcome a letter campaign against me and would attempt to address each one. As for the prayers, I couldn't worry less. Even if they are very specific and asking god the right questions.
Opinion Guy
Hey hows it going opinion guy?
Anyways, Ive been reading alot of your web page lately and i find it very interesting. It feels like i know who you are. Let's give her a try!
Colin Mcrea 4
Dear Colin Mcrea 4,
I'm very pleased to hear that someone has been reading this site and finding it interesting as well. As for your deductions about me...
I truly want to tell you where you were accurate, close to accurate or off base completely, but I want to try and remain anonymous. I have a theory that a wider range of people will be open to asking my opinion if they are forced to deduce some things about me and that they will be less likely to have biases against me. I will tell you that parts of what you inferred were eerily accurate. You seem like a fairly perceptive fellow.
I hope you continue to read the site and I would really like to hear more of your opinions in the future. I'm deducing that your circumstances and life experiences would make them well worth reading.
Opinion Guy
Poor Kids,
"Opinion Guy" these kids that have seeked your help regarding religion and demonic oppression need help far beyond your opinions. What they believe is what will set them free, even if only psychologically. I used to have sleep paralysis and let me tell you something that shit is no joke! Its overwhelmingly real. I am a christian and over came it by faith. I claimed my life in jesus christ and that is all that it took. By the way sometimes this... whatever it was would literally try and put me back into a dream state immediately after my waking up and trust me I was quite conscious and my eyes would suddenly close tightly. It was very real. You shouldnt give opinions on things you dont see so clearly on (as in that you havent quite studided on I knwo you could say the same to me). Isnt it ironic to say the least that for a thousand years people have recanted the EXACT SAME type of experience most for no reason at all! No history of dementia or psychosis. Hmmm... the same exact encounters > and might I add with no ghost stories of sleep terrors in the back of there heads.
Rochelle
Dear Rochelle, if you want my opinion (and I somehow doubt you do)...
I will try to respond to your opinion point by point.
Opinion Guy